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Theyhad two children: Vsevolod Ioannovich, born on January 1, 1914, and CatherineKoannovna, born on July 12, 1915. The Prince was distinguished bya rare inclination for spiritual and religious matters and by his compassionfor the unfortunate. He was sensitive and unpretentious to soldiersand to those people who were victims of cruel fate. He rememberedthe testament of his father: "Do not betray your high calling and stayin your homeland." During the hours of his grievous exile, he comfortedhimself with the words of his poet father: "Blessed is he who smiles, whowith a joyful countenance bears his cross without complaint..."At all historical religious festivals, Prince John Konstantinovich servedas the representative of His Majesty the Emperor. In the spirit ofhis religious life, he was close to the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna,with whom he many hours discussing moral and religious questions. Although he was a family man, he was nonetheless a great man of prayer,of love and of pure devotion; he lived not for the dark, fleeting momentsof life, but rather for holy eternity, leaving his kin with a legacy oftruth, good, love and humanity.

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By train on the way they stopped in Ykaterinburg, where the captivesspent several days under strict surveillance, (the Royal Martyrs Tsar NicholasII and his Royal Family members, and friends had not yet arrive in Ykaterinburg),and then from Ykaterinburg the three nuns where transported to Alapaevsk,where they imprisoned the the Grand Duchess Elizabeth with the nuns ina school building prepared for the purpose. There authorities hadalso imprisoned the others whom they had arrested: the Grand Duke SergeiMikhailovich, Prince John Konstantinovich and his wife, Helena Petrovna,and their children, Vsevolod and Catherine, Prince Konstantine Konstantinovich,Prince Igor Konstantinovich, Count Vladimir Palovich Paley, and the stewardof the estates of the Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich - Theodore SemyonovichRemez.

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Martha and Mary Convent of Loveand Mercy), Princes John, Igor, Constantine, Vladimir and Sergius, whowere all martyred in Alapaevsk, Russia, on July 5/18) the day after theholy martyrdom of the Holy Imperial Royal Martyrs Tsar Nicholas, TsarinaAlexandra, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie, Anastasia, and the GrandDuke Tsarevich Alexis, along with their friends.

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Concerning this test and witness, we have such a devoted God-lovinghandmaiden of our Lord Jesus Christ named Sister Barbara, a Russian Orthodoxnun, who was the cell keeper of the Holy Royal Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth,who was the Abbess of Ss.

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The three brothers, Princes John, Konstantine and Igor, were the sonsof Grand Duke Konstantine Konstantinovich, who was the son of the GrandDuke Konstantine Nikolaevich (the ardent champion of the liberation ofthe peasants from serfdom), and his wife, the former Princess of Saxony-Alterburg,now the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavreikievna. These were the childrenof an august poet, renowned in the academic world, president of the ImperialAcademy of Sciences, and general inspector of the military academies. These were the children of a great man of government, whose lofty and diversegifts marked his activities, enabling him to serve in various aspects ofgovernmental and social life. These were the brothers of an august,great, modern hero, who fell on the field of battle, a valiant young champion,Prince Oleg Konstantinovich, who was mourned by the army and all Russia.

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Two nuns from the convent, named Sister Barbara, and Sister Catherine,were with Grand Duchess while under arrest by the local Red Guards on BrightTuesday of the Paschal season in April of 1918. Carried off intoexile, no one knew where they were taken, although the Grand Duchess Elizabethwas under the impression that she was going towards Siberia to help withher nursing skills, and that both Sisters Barbara and Catherine where goingto help with the same cause.

She was married in 1745 and became Grand Duchess Catherine of Russia

Barbara Yakovleva, the nun from the Martha and Mary Convent of Loveand Mercy, had been one of the first inhabitants of the holy convent andhad always been faithful to all the traditions of the convent. Althoughshe had been the closest person to the Grand Duchess (Elizabeth), she nevertook pride in this and always behaved like an ordinary nun accessible,kind, and pleasant to everyone. Everyone thought kindly of her. She was faithful to her great Matushka to very end, and voluntarily wentto her suffering and death, fulfilling the command of Christ: (St.